SESSION 1906-1907. xlix 



following six divisions : — (1) Origin of the Plioto-Sui'vey Move- 

 ment; (2) Progress ofPhoto-SurveyWork in Britain; (3) Objects 

 of Photo- Survey Work ; (4) District Surveys and Subject 

 Surveys ; (5) Base of the British Photo-Survey ; (6) Promotion 

 of the Survey Movement ; and also an Appendix of Suggestions 

 and Memoranda for the use of Societies, Committees, or Sections 

 as to the working of a Photographic Survey. 



(1) The photo-survey movement originated in a note upon 

 " The Work of a Local Photographic Society," read before the 

 Binningham Photographic Society in 1883, and published in 

 the ' Photographic News ' (vol. xix, p. 421). This eventually led 

 to an attempt to link together the photographers of the world, 

 a paper on the subject being read at the World's Congress at 

 Chicago in 1893. 



(2) A paper read at Birmingham in 1889, entitled " Notes 

 upon a Proposed Photographic Survey of Warwickshire," has 

 resulted in an annual exhibition of local photographs in the 

 Municipal Art GTalleries of Birmingham, the prints being 

 afterwards deposited in the reference department of the 

 Birmingham Free Libraries, where they now number 3,020 

 prints in 110 folio volumes. A list of other localities and of 

 a few counties where similar work is carried on was given. 



(3) The chief objects of photo-survey work are to benefit 

 (rt) the individual photographer, (6) the scientific and photo- 

 graphic Societies, and (c) the nation generally. 



(a) By giving the photographer an object, causing him to 

 learn much about the objects photographed and bringing him 

 into contact with experts who will aiford him information. 



(b) By bringing members of Societies together, attracting 

 members, and bringing the Societies before the public. 

 Members of local Societies can show photographers what to 

 photograph. 



(c) By recording the present physical features of the land, the 

 present state of buildings and moniunents, and the present life 

 of the nation — the trades, dress, occupations, habits, and amuse- 

 ments of the people. This would afford valuable information, 

 showing in course of time the changes which occur. 



(4) A District Survey is one in which all items of interest in 

 a definite area are photographed ; a Subject Survey is one in 

 which some definite line of research is followed, such as those 

 undertaken by the Geological Photographs, Anthropological 

 Photographs, and Botanical Photographs Committees of the 

 British Association, this Association being specially well fitted 

 to carry on the work of subject surveys. 



(5) The unit for district surveys should be the county; the 

 maps those of the Ordnance Survey, the one-inch or the 

 six-inch (to the mile), preferably the latter as the detail given 

 enables the orientation of buildings to be determined and 

 therefore the time of day when the light will be best for the 

 pm'pose. 



